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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

Nadine Gordimer

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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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But Explore Fiction Life Live Possibility Present Single Undreamt Way
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Autobiography Jealous Much never Privacy Shall That

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